The Michael Shermer Show

The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

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Every guest on The Michael Shermer Show

472 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Bret Weinstein
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   Yaron Brook

   197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism · Aug 2021

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   Avi Loeb

   Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb · 2 episodes

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   Ben Goertzel

   The Road to Singularity: Ben Goertzel on AGI and The Fate of Humanity · Sep 2024

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   Richard Dawkins

   Richard Dawkins on Genetic Insights Into the History of Life · 4 episodes

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   Nick Bostrom

   An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford) · Apr 2024

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   Ann Druyan

   112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds · Apr 2020

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   Scott Barry Kaufman

   What's Holding You Back? Scott Barry Kaufman on Resilience in the Age of Fragility · 2 episodes

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   Konstantin Kisin

   293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West · Aug 2022

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    Andrew Doyle

    Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism · 3 episodes

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    Louise Perry

    312. Louise Perry — The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century · Dec 2022

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    John Lisle

    341. Secret Scientists & Real Conspiracies — John Lisle on Stanley Lovell, the OSS precursor to the CIA, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare · Apr 2023

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    Matt Ridley

    Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Darwin's Strangest Idea (Matt Ridley) · 4 episodes

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    Abigail Shrier

    Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier) · 2 episodes

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    Coleman Hughes

    The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes) · Mar 2024

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    Rikki Schlott
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    Mary Eberstadt

    215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics · Oct 2021

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    Robert Sapolsky

    Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Determinism · Oct 2023

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    Gad Saad

    Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous · 3 episodes

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    Nancy Segal

    Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why? · 3 episodes

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    Polina Pompliano

    Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People · Sep 2023

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    Geoffrey Miller

    93. Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech · Dec 2019

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    Anil Seth

    282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition · Jun 2022

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    Kevin Kelly

    333. Kevin Kelly — ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living · Mar 2023

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    Valerie Fridland

    342. Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English · Apr 2023

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    Jean Twenge

    How to Protect Children from Social Media and AI · Sep 2025

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    Bjorn Lomborg

    Is a Human Life Worth $10 Million or Only $187,000? (Bjorn Lomborg) · 2 episodes

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    Paul Bloom

    328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind · 2 episodes

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    Kevin Dutton

    153. Kevin Dutton — Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World · Jan 2021

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    Carole Hooven

    204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us · Aug 2021

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    Stuart Ritchie

    131. Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth · Sep 2020

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    Matthew Cobb

    Rethinking the Discovery of DNA · 3 episodes

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    Sabine Hossenfelder

    294. Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions · Aug 2022

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    Steven Pinker

    The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment · 2 episodes

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    Sebastian Junger

    Death and the Search for Meaning in the Afterlife · Jul 2024

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    John McWhorter

    165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America · Mar 2021

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    Clay Routledge

    42. Dr. Clay Routledge — The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything · Oct 2018

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    Stuart Russell

    118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control · Jun 2020

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    Andrew Gold

    324. Andrew Gold on Exorcism, Abortion, Pedophilia, Sex & UFOs · Feb 2023

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    Julia Galef

    202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't · Aug 2021

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